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I made a funny discovery today. Well, maybe not funny to you, but hilarious for me. I’ve been picking spinach by the handful and marveling at there being no leaf miner damage at all. I thought that keeping the leaves picked reduced where they could lay their eggs. It turns out the eggs on the bottom of the leaves go […]

I got to fish emulsion my crucifers today. They got transplanted 3 weeks ago with a half strength dose, so today I used full strength. Watering them with a watering can is always fun for me because it demonstrates the effectiveness of continual applications of organic mulch. The water doesn’t puddle or run off, but flows strait down around the […]

Woke up to the sound of wind turbines this morning. Sure enough there was frost on the deck. Our average last date of frost was March 15th so someone was hoping to jump the gun. It must be a commercial farm to afford a turbine, but once they get one they can be early every year, if they know when […]

The carrots are up. A nice solid row that’s gonna need some thinning. I sprinkled kinda heavy because the seeds were free. My son gave them to me and said I’ll love the carrots because they’re so sweet. They are called Scarlet Nantes and are half long. Every time I pick one I’ll be thinking that I could have had […]

The double row of beets had 18 up last night and 38 up this morning in each row. I kid you not. Totally even. I can’t make this stuff up. My conclusion is not what you would expect though. I realized that my coarse compost is finer than most people’s because it’s derived from stall shavings which are of uniform […]

Well I did it again. I had to go look in the fridge to see if the spinach or the chard bag was gone. I couldn’t tell which we had eaten. Not only do they taste the same this spring, but I realized that I’m fooling myself by shredding the chard leaves before I bag them, and discarding all the […]